3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Lunar Reflective Interferometry
Peter W. Gorham, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Andrew Romero-Wolf +14
We present the method of lunar reflection interferometry (LRI) in which a virtual interferometer can be formed by using a spacecraft-borne antenna in lunar orbit that receives both…
astro-ph.GA2026
When the Shadow Meets Its Measure: Assessing the Feasibility of Submillimeter Black Hole Shadow Imaging in Megamaser Disk AGN
Roman N. Burridge, Geoffrey C. Bower
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosting water megamaser disks provide precise geometric measurements of black hole mass, distance, maser disk orientation, and dynamical center. In ant…
astro-ph.GA2024
Demographics of black holes at 100 R scales: accretion flows, jets, and shadows
Dhanya G. Nair, Neil M. Nagar, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan +87
Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the gravitationally lensed rings around the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Messier 87 (M87) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) have now been…